The NYCompressor is the ideal workhorse when it comes to dynamics management in a mix. From gentle compression for glueing your mix together to heavy drum compression for the ultimate punch: NYCompressor can do it all
Dear Reality’s state-of-the-art algorithms have been a mainstay of 3D audio production for years. Now, for the first time, their spatial processing treasure chest has been made available in an all-in-one plugin for your DAW: dearVR pro. Say goodbye to expensive middleware, unwieldy software bundles and complex routing schemes. All the tools you need to create stunning, immersive 3D audio for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) video, films and games are included in dearVR pro’s powerful yet fast and intuitive interface.
Most people probably listen to your mixes on earbuds and headphones. It’s the perfect setup for blowing their minds with music in 3D—if only a plugin could do that. Well, prepare to enter the third dimension! dearVR music breaks the shackles of stereo and planar surround sound to turn your DAW into a 3D virtual reality powerhouse. No advanced engineering chops are needed. Load dearVR music onto a track in your mix and choose one of 18 pristine virtual acoustic presets. Then simply drag your mouse around in the plugin’s intuitive interface to position the track virtually behind or in front of the listener, above or below their head, to the left or right, closer or farther away—at any angle and distance in a 3D soundstage—for mind-blowing playback using conventional stereo headphones.
Chorddetector, an mp3/wav-player with an integrated chord detection algorithm. It’s extremely simple to use: just load the song whose chords you’re interested in, press play and see the displayed chords in realtime, so that you can play along with your instrument. Very useful for covering songs, which, as we all know, is the basis of virtually all successful band careers!.
With more and more hosts going 64 bit only, a universal, cross-platform bit bridging tool is an essential part of the toolbox of every audio engineer who doesn’t want to lose all those precious (and often legendary) 32 bit plugins still waiting to be used. Enter Bridgewize: the only bit bridging application that covers both VST and AU plugins on Mac and VST plugins on Windows. It uses the same proprietary wrapping technique that has already been successfully introduced with Metaplugin3, but now in a dedicated standalone package that allows you to selectively create seamlessly bridged versions of your favourite 32 bit babies.
DirectionalEQ lets the user equalize specific directions in the stereo field. It features five independent bands which can be set to operate specifically at, say, 30 degrees, -20 degrees, etc. An overall gain in those directions is possible as well.
Sometimes you just don’t want to spend much time on finding the ideal EQ settings (and, with beasts like IIEQPro and LP10, you can easily lose yourself in all the options), but just turn a knob and know it will sound right, because someone else has figured out the most musical response for you. In the case of the 6144, this person has been the designer of the Neve Portico 5033, which was the role model for this software EQ. Hats off to the man! Unique gain-Q-interaction and custom made low- and high shelf filters make sure you can apply even extreme settings without getting harsh or muddy results. Add a little bit of saturation for that extra warmth, et voila! There you go…
